Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
613
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2320
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
سلام
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
متشکرم
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
لطفا
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
متاسف
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
خدا حافظ
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
128
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
فارسی
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
persan
mongol
German Name
Persisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Persian people
Mongols
Origin
1500 BC
1224-1225
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Mongolian
Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Persian
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
fa
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fas
mon
ISO 639 2/B
per
mon
ISO 639 3
pes
mon
ISO 639 6
pers
mon
Glottocode
fars1254
mong1331
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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